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Light Vehicles Sales Decrease to 15.65 million SAAR in May www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/06/ligh... This "beat the tariff" induced surge in buying happened in March and April. Now comes the payback ...

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this is what your crossword and wordle subscriptions are financing.

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1/ New in the Abrego Garcia case, the Judge has just granted his lawyers' request for permission to file sanctions against the government, which is very unusual.

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LEVY: “.. This is .. one of those operations of crazy audacity and unparalleled ingenuity that make military history. It will be taught for ages in war schools. .. Putin terrorized the world .. There was an army capable of calling his bluff—and it did.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/ukra...

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Financial security, especially the retirement outlook improved in 2024. Now, people are very worried about the future, a possible foreboding of things getting worse. My latest on new Fed data @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/christ...

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The coin-operated presidency. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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He needed air. The price was $539. When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price. 5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler. He paid with his life. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky

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RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

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They're literally doing the meme

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Every time I hear the name Tom Llamas I think of this from 2017:

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Check out the white supremacist Odin imagery on a patch belonging to an apparent ICE officer in the Twin Cities today

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MURPHY: Did you worry about what your decision would do to these kids where you've ripped away their counselors & social workers literally in the middle of the program? McMAHON: I certainly worry about mental health MURPHY: It's a really cruel thing to do M: I can't evaluate every program

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UBS: “US recession probabilities moving back up.”

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Curtis Yarvin should be considered a threat to democracy everywhere, and any treatment of him as otherwise is complicit in normalizing a treasonous incel. His neoreactionary ideology has greatly influenced Thiel, Musk, Vance, and other techno-fascists who are actively trying to usurp the U.S. govt.

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my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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".. American automakers are the hardest hit .. production at factories across the Midwest and South could be cut back in the coming days .. Carmakers need the magnets for the electric motors that run brakes, steering and fuel injectors." @nytimes.com $GM $F $STLA www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...

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Nothing to worry about, just billions of dollars of credit deals being awarded aggressively optimistic credit ratings so they can be pushed into life insurance company portfolios. 🤪

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Russ Vought: "We're certainly not taking impoundment off the table. We're not in love with the law."

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“Penn Wharton, Trump's alma mater, finds that most households earning less than $51,000 will immediately see their after-tax income drop. Meanwhile, the bill boosts incomes of members of the top 1% by nearly $70,000 in the first year alone…” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Honolulu police say they are launching a review after attorneys accused officers of arresting sober drivers to meet quotas. The ACLU of Hawaii says it has identified at least 127 people arrested from 2022 through 2024 who had blood alcohol levels of 0.00.

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My radical position is that congress should remove a president if he pronounces that his predecessor was assassinated and replaced by a clone

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Musk tried to shut down CBS from asking about anything other than "spaceships"

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using "crowd control" devices on people trying to stop government sanctioned kidnapping is somehow a special new circle of hell www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

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NYT: “The episode was recorded by someone who was sitting in Mr. Nadler’s office. In the video, an officer with the Federal Protective Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is shown demanding access to a private area inside the office.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/n...

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Homeland Security cops handcuff one of Rep. Nadler's aides in chaotic day at NY fed building - gothamist.com/news/homelan... @nytimes.com Have you covered this? Or is it not "fit to print"?

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Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

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Federal officers entered Rep. Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom.

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“To carry out the data effort, the administration has deepened the federal government’s longstanding partnership with Palantir, a tech firm specializing in building big data applications, which was co-founded by Silicon Valley investor, GOP donor, and JD Vance mentor Peter Thiel.”

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The broligarchy strikes again. South African billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir. This is the dude who groomed and hand delivered JD Vance to the white house. It's all a big grift at our expense.

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yeah sorry if your friend works at Palantir they're not your friend

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Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

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Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

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This is a very big deal.👇 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Volvo suspends production at SC plant citing parts shortages scdailygazette.com/2025/05/30/v...

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GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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"This is precisely the danger that RFK Jr. has presented all along. The man is an unreconstructed crank. He plans to use the authority of the federal government and its health agencies to launder his own crackpot beliefs into official policy." www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-mah...

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Government contractors like SpaceX must maintain a drug-free work force and administers random drug tests to its employees. But Musk received advanced warning of the tests, according to people close to the process. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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NEW: The Trump Administration Knew Most Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Had No U.S. Crime Convictions

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